English Translation
The iPhone unloads this summer in Switzerland
Swisscom has just taken down the exclusiveness in the sale from the iPhone 3G as of this summer in Switzerland.
More than a few weeks to be held... If all occurs as envisaged, the Swiss ones will be able to touch very beautiful iPhone, very new in the Swisscom stores as of this summer. APPLE and the number one of telephony in Switzerland indeed has just concluded a collaboration agreement, according to a source of Swisscom.
And good surprise: it is the version 3G, the new grinding of the multi-media telephone of the mark to the apple, which will unload in Switzerland. Doped by a more powerful chip, the toy à.la.mode will offer more functionalities like the videoconference, mobile television and the GPS. It should be put on sale in June in the USA.
Obsolete the "old man" iPhone
"the new version of the iPhone will reléguera with the oubliettes the first generation, sold with more than 5,5 million specimens", analyzes a specialist who estimates that the patience of Swisscom paid in this business. "After one year of service in the USA and a little more than seven months in Europe, the" old man "iPhone became obsolete." Blow, the operators like T-Mobile, in Germany, sell off this multi-media multi-fonction pocket knife. Just like AT & T, in the USA, which yields it to half price, with 170 dollars (179 franks Swiss).
Remain that the secrecy of the transaction with the Californian company is well kept at Swisscom. "Nothing is done", is restricted to answer its spokesman Christian Neuhaus. Even dumbness on the side of APPLE. "But the signs do not mislead", continues an observer. The blue giant has just launched a mobile service of television.
Another index: APPLE signed an alliance with English Vodafone. The world number one of telephony will distribute the iPhone in ten country and especially it will develop services of contents for the machine of APPLE. Swisscom, which is partner of the English colossus since 2003, will benefit from it. And there is no doubt that the 40 000 owners of iPhone to the black in Switzerland will be allured by these new offers.
Who could indeed resist a match of football on line on his 3G?